the results of which were on displayaThe Polaroid Snap is a pocket-sized instant digital camera. It features a modern, minimalist design that’s able to spit out prints on the fly. What’s most impressive about the Snap is not the fact that it can print photos (competitors can do the same thing) but that it does so without using ink. How can that be?
The Snap uses a technology that Polaroid calls Zink Zero Ink Printing which replaces traditional ink and photo paper with an advanced composite material that’s embedded with cyan, yellow and magenta dye crystals under a protective polymer overcoat. The Zink paper, which looks like a standard sheet of white photo paper before use, is heated up during printing to activate and colorize the crystals.